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The Belgian Council of State has issued a landmark judgment clarifying the obligations of both contracting authorities and tenderers under the EU's Foreign Subsidies Regulation in public procurement procedures. This ruling addresses a high-value casino concession dispute and establishes critical compliance requirements that could invalidate awarding decisions if not properly followed.

Teresa Ribera has completed her first year at the helm of the European Commission's competition directorate ("DG COMP").

On 9 January 2026, the European Commission published its first set of Guidelines on the application of the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, which requires some M&A deals involving companies that have received support from non-EU governments ...

On 6 September 2022, the European Commission (EC) prohibited Illumina's acquisition of Grail, bringing to an end the administrative stage of a legal saga that has attracted interest beyond competition law specialists.

Competition law is, in the authors' views, seldom given the consideration it deserves by outsourcing practitioners. This article will endeavour to redress the balance.

If the results of the market test are positive, the European Commission could make the commitments legally binding by decision under Article 9 of Regulation 1/2003.

The Supreme Court recently handed down two judgments on the repackaging of parallel imported pharmaceuticals.

In a move to facilitate private damages claims resulting from anti-competitive infringements, the European Commission adopted in 2014 a directive on EU antitrust damages actions (the Directive).

The EU General Court has upheld the European Commission's prohibition of Booking's acquisition of Etraveli, marking the first judicial endorsement of an "ecosystem" theory of harm in merger control. This landmark ruling validates the EC's use of reverse leveraging and entrenchment theories, establishing that dominant firms can be blocked from acquiring assets in adjacent markets even where they lack dominance in the target's market. The decision has far-reaching implications for digital platform acquisition

The European Commission has published Draft Merger Guidelines consolidating two decades of enforcement practice into a single framework that emphasizes dynamic competition, innovation, and ecosystem effects. While retaining the existing legal test, the guidelines articulate a more explicit analytical approach that brings greater prominence to scale, resilience, and non-price dimensions of competition, with particular implications for technology and life sciences transactions.

On July 22, 2024, the European Commission (EC) accepted commitments proposed by Vifor Pharmaceuticals to address disparagement concerns under Article 102 TFEU.

In addition, the statutory interest rate for late payment in commercial transactions amounts to 10.5% during the first semester of 2023

This regular update (no. 60 | 6 September 2021) covers key regulatory EU developments related to the evolving COVID-19 situation (Antitrust & State Aid; Trade/Export Controls; Medicines, Medical Devices and Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Protection).

On 15 September 2022, the CJEU ruled that contracting authorities must have "sufficiently plausible indications" (Art. 57(4)(d) Public Contracts Directive) of violation of EU antitrust rules before they may exclude a company from a public tender ...

Christmas is the season of warm wishes, mince pies, Glühwein at the Christmas Market… and a final review of the most significant competition law developments of the year that was. In our annual Christmas issue.

The European Commission ("Commission") adopted new Guidelines on State Aid for Climate, Environmental Protection and Energy ("CEEAG") on 27 January 2022.

On 7 December 2017, a Bill on the reform of business law was submitted to the Federal Chamber of Representatives.